Literary usage of Changeling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Scandinavian Folk-lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the by William Alexander Craigie (1896)"The changeling and the Egg-shell. A WOMAN'S child was once changed by the troll-folk,
... She should first try whether the child was really a changeling, ..."

2.Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)"1(116) and The changeling (1023). By 1014 Middleton had written most of the ...
But it is in the romantic tragedy, The changeling, of the same class as ..."

3.A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt (1892)"Under date of January 23, 1660-1, Pepys says : " To the Playhouse, and there saw
the changeling, the first time it hath been acted these twenty years, ..."

4.The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)"The changeling has nothing peculiar in it ; but the Brewery of Eggshells is one
which we find in many places, even in Brittany and Auvergne. ..."